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become the victim of the State is nonetheless treasured and upheld in
love by the community of individuals before God: “the other” thus
becomes “the neighbour” made intimate through the communion of
divine love. Kierkegaard, Works of Love, ed. and trans. Howard V.
Hong and Edna H. Hong (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University
Press, 1995), p. 37. See also Perkins, ‘Kierkegaard’s critique of the
bourgeois state’, pp. 207–218. See further George Pattison and Steven
Shakespeare (eds.), Kierkegaard: The Self in Society (Basingstoke
and London: Macmillan Press, 1998); Simon D. Podmore, ‘Between
Sociology, Anthropology, and Psychology: The Insider/Outsider
Self’, in Jon Stewart (ed.), The Blackwell Companion to Kierkegaard
(Oxford: Blackwell, 2015), pp. 415–434.



  1. Perkins, p. 214.

  2. Perkins, p. 214.

  3. JP 4:4238.

  4. Works of Love, p. 253, p. 37.

  5. JP 4:4231.

  6. JP 2:1259.

  7. JP 4:4953.

  8. JP 2:1273.

  9. JP 4:4953.

  10. SUD, p. 40.

  11. As paradigmatically outlined by G. W. F. Hegel, Phenomenology
    of Spirit, B, IV, 187, trans. A.V. Miller (Oxford: Oxford University
    Press, 1977), p. 111–119.

  12. SUD, p. 83 (my emphasis).

  13. JP 4:4350.

  14. SUD, p. 126.

  15. PM, p. 465.

  16. Cited in de Lubac, The Un-marxian Socialist, 177.

  17. Published treatments of Kierkegaard and Proudhon are scarce. On
    the relationship between the thought of Kierkegaard and Proudhon

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